Justin Chon’s ‘Gook’ Acquired By Samuel Goldwyn Films For August Bow

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Gook, Justin Chon’s Sundance Audience Award winner. An August release is planned. Chon wrote, directed and stars the pic, which is set in Los Angeles just before the 1992 riots break out.

It revolves around Eli (Chon) and Daniel (David So), Korean-American brothers who run their late father’s shoe store in a predominantly African-American community of Los Angeles. They strike up an unlikely friendship with an 11-year-old African-American girl, Kamilla (Simone Baker), as racial tensions build around them.